It seems that status pages never work properly in those kind of situations. The only reliable source of information seems to be twitter and HN

Saying that twitter is the only source of truth for something usually means that this something is utterly broken... :D

...or you're in the mind of your user.

What if Twitter has an outage...

Reminds me of the time when Twitter had an outage, because an FB outage made people go on Twitter to ask whether FB is down